A Field Research on the Practices of High Performance Software Engineering Teams

This paper presents the results of a field research aiming at identifying the practices adopted by High Productivity Software Engineering Teams .This field research was developed through interviews with project managers from several companies with the following objectives: to evaluate the knowledge of the professionals in relation to the characteristics of the high performance teams found in the literature; understand and identify which practices companies use to develop each high performance characteristic; identify the training approaches that are used to improve the professionals in each practice.